Website: Where stories and art bring new light to healthcare

Science and art are a powerful combination for expanding perspectives in healthcare. Non profit organisation Junction Care has gathered personal stories
In the Media: Gynecologist Warns About Unknown Disease: ‘Diagnosis Often 15 Years Too Late’

“It’s just part of it” and “you just have to learn to live with it”—these are things women often hear when dealing with menstrual problems.
Narrative medicine intervention on the obstetric-gynaecological work floor to discuss social stigmas around heavy menstrual bleeding using cocreated site-specific poetry

Heleen Eising 1 2, Elsemarijn Leijenaar 3, Ramsey Nasr 4, Renate van Leuken 5, Marlies Bongers 2 6, Megan Milota 3 Published in Pubmed
Collaboration with the Dutch String Collective

The Dutch String Collective were asked to create some music to a poem of Ramsey Nasr.
Co-creation of a poem with poet and writer Ramsey Nasr

In 2019, Ramsey Nasr was asked by Heleen to co-create a thematic poem about taboo topics such as vulnerability, intimacy and gender inequality in women’s care.
Science: Lectures and publications

An overview of all Junction lectures and publications.